Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States by Matthew Frye Jacobson

Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

Matthew Frye Jacobson

336 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction politics sociology medium-paced
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Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the United States "became American," by choice and with deliberate speed. Yet, as Special Sorrows shows us, this is simply untrue. In this compelling revisionist study, Matthew Frye...

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